There’s nothing the Washington Nationals or any other team can do to fully take away the sting of the season that the Chicago Cubs wrapped up a few weeks ago. Yet when the Nationals knocked out the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series on Tuesday night – sweeping them, no less – I’m not going to pretend that I didn’t smile just a little bit.
I became a Chicago Cubs fan at nine years old, in 1994, and in 1996 I learned early on in my fandom that I didn’t like the Cardinals.